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Mathematical Quotes by G. H. Hardy
- Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a…
- As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
- I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and…
- I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the…
- [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
- 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is…
- Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in…
- Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
- I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
- The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which…
- No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died…
- Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
- Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
More Mathematical Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
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- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar